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If you have been following the news about Microsoft over the last 8 \u2013\u00a012 months you will undoubtedly have come to the realization that they have changed<\/span><\/em>!<\/strong>\u00a0 Microsoft has\u00a0made a 180 degree turn and are now on the path of being \u201cagile\u201d; things are happening almost at lightspeed within all of their product groups with the two most visbile representations being Office 365 and Azure.\u00a0 If you deal with these porducts at all you will know what I mean when I say this is NOT<\/strong> your father’s Microsoft!<\/p>\n

Microsoft is now on the path of bringing many new features into Office 365 at breakneck speed.\u00a0 The idea is that new features will come onstream as they are deemed to be \u201cready\u201d and it is up to the user community to \u201cvote\u201d with their use of the feature.\u00a0 Some may disappear, many will live and grow, but the days of waiting years for new features to show up in Microsoft products are long gone.\u00a0 If you are in the Microsoft Cloud then the new features are coming hard and fast.<\/p>\n

Office 365 has an administration setting that allows you to turn on \u201cFirst Release\u201d which is a way to get new features delivered to your tenancy in advance of the \u201cgeneral populace\u201d receiving the feature.\u00a0 As a rule, First Release can give you access to new features up to 3 weeks before the feature goes live across the Office 365 world.\u00a0 It is a way for you to be on the bleeding edge and may or may not be appropriate for your particular tenancy.\u00a0 But, if you like to live with a bit of an adrenaline rush, First Release is the way to go!<\/p>\n

My friend, boss and fellow MVP, Sean Wallbridge<\/a>, created this short video<\/a>\u00a0to explain how to enable First Release in your tenancy.\u00a0 I hope you find it informative!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

If you have been following the news about Microsoft over the last 8 \u2013\u00a012 months you will undoubtedly have come to the realization that they have changed!\u00a0 Microsoft has\u00a0made a 180 degree turn and are now on the path of being \u201cagile\u201d; things are happening almost at lightspeed within all of their product groups with … <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10,"featured_media":2092,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"inline_featured_image":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[247],"tags":[],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"\nOffice 365 "First Release" - Archive<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/regroove.ca\/archive\/2014\/11\/09\/office-365-first-release\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Office 365 "First Release" - Archive\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"If you have been following the news about Microsoft over the last 8 \u2013\u00a012 months you will undoubtedly have come to the realization that they have changed!\u00a0 Microsoft has\u00a0made a 180 degree turn and are now on the path of being \u201cagile\u201d; 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